The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 21, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Protecting Firefox users following the compromise of eMudhra intermediate certificates
  

  security
  

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• OpenBSD 8.0
  

  openbsd release
  

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• The Netherlands is building its own Linux OS to break free from Microsoft
  

  linux nix windows
  

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• 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)
  

  compilers rust
  

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• Setting up SSH keys on macOS with Touch ID
  

  cryptography mac security
  

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• NixOS is making me less afraid
  

  nix
  

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• In Context
  

  video programming
  

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• A5 v1.0
  

  compsci math rust visualization
  

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• Jepsen: Orkes Conductor 5.3.2
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• The 7.3 kernel has been released
  

  linux release
  

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• How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed
  

  privacy security
  

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• Making dns_erlang Fast: Binary Tricks for the BEAM
  

  erlang
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• IANA's email about why example.com changed
  

  networking web
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.99.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Who's hiring? Q4 2026
  

  job
  

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• Reviving Valve's 15-year-old e-book
  

  games reversing vibecoding
  

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• Typeclasses vs Modules
  

  haskell ml plt
  

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• Finding Bugs
  

  rust testing
  

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• EDG C/C++ Compiler Project
  

  c c++ compilers
  

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• Turbo Haskell
  

  haskell java programming vibecoding
  

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• The AI Pascal’s Wager
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Reducing the cognitive load of AI changes
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Q2 2026 Backblaze Drive Stats: Hard Drive Failure Rates
  

  hardware
  

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• Major rsync upgrade in Debian because of 33 CVEs
  

  security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 30, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• CoW — a stacking window manager for Wayland
  

  freebsd linux
  

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• State of the (Tagged) Union Address by Andrew Kelley
  

  video zig
  

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• It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Aho-Corasick Algorithm
  

  compsci
  

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• Switching To Emacs as a Neovim User
  

  emacs vim
  

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• My experience writing automated tests for a SPA
  

  testing web
  

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• Pining for Arc Downcasting in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• MotifCentral - All Things Motif/Xt/Xlib
  

  graphics unix
  

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• HardenedBSD August / September 2026 Status Report
  

  freebsd security
  

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• the normalization of inexplicable failures
  

  testing vibecoding
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• AI Didn’t Make Programming Easier. It Just Made It Differently Difficult
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What Sun got wrong
  

  historical
  

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• Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?
  

  video design
  

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• Textbook review: Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?
  

  programming
  

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• Creating a Blog in Gemini://
  

  web
  

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• Do you use :visited on links?
  

  a11y web
  

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• Bot-free self-hosted analytics with GoatCounter on NixOS
  

  privacy web
  

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• How Notion handles concurrent editing with CRDTs
  

  distributed
  

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• Deterministic Core, Non-Deterministic Shell
  

  testing
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Relation algebra is not relational algebra
  

  databases math
  

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• Attention is all you have
  

  culture
  

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• Why do computers look like this anyway?
  

  video design historical mac
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 12, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Power grab
  

  culture linux
  

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• Feeling sad about AI
  

  programming
  

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• Soft-deprecating re.match()
  

  python
  

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• Models Don't Go Rogue
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• It's not the YAML spec's fault, but
  

  historical
  

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• My HTML Boilerplate
  

  web
  

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• How CHERIoT Provides Strong and Usable Isolation Without an MMU
  

  hardware osdev security
  

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• An untrusted site can freeze a Mac using WebGPU
  

  browsers security
  

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• A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
  

  math vibecoding
  

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• evergarden
  

  design
  

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• Bastion of the Turbofish
  

  rust satire testing
  

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• Fastly Speedtest Test
  

  networking wasm
  

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